There are three essential ingredients to happiness
The next ingredient to happiness is someone to love, think for a moment, what if you were to accomplish everything in life that you set out to do, and you got everything that you ever wanted, a beautiful home, money, cars, a great career, all the newest and latest gadgets, the finest and the best of everything, and all your dreams had finally came true.
What if you were extremely successful in life, and everything that you touched turned to gold and you accomplished all your life long dreams and goals, you had it all, and there was nothing else left for you to do. What if, you did all that, and there was no one to share your joys your successes and your accomplishments? How satisfying would it be? How happy would you be? Just how much pleasure and joy could you get out having everything you ever wanted and there was no one around to enjoy them with?
Having something to do, is what motivates and inspires us, it ignites the flames of passion inside of us, but having someone to enjoy and share our life with, is what brings us true happiness. But just having someone around to share our life with, is not always enough, because we can still be lonely even when we are surrounded by people.
Everyone wants to be accepted and validated, we all want to be loved, respected and well thought of. We are thankful and grateful for the people around us who makes us happy, and makes feel, loved and good about ourselves, because they make love blossom inside our heart. Some people make our lives better by walking into it, and some make our lives better by walking out of it. They say that one day, someone will walk into your life, who will make you see why, things never worked out with anyone else.
Having someone to love, doesn't mean just having someone in your life, it means having the right person in your life. It also means that if you want to be loved, you have to know how to love others, and that you have to be loveable. It's not what, we have in life that matters, it's who, we have in our life that matters. Good people will not make your life good, they will make it extraordinary.
Don't chase people to get them to like you, the right people who belong in your life, will come and find you and they will stay with you forever. The richest, the wealthiest, the happiest and the most successful people in the world are not the people who have everything, it is the people who have discovered and knows the value of true love and realizes the importance it has in their life. Even if I have all the riches in the world, without love, I am nothing at all.
Twenty years from now when all is said and done, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do and say, then by the things that you did do, so explore and discover your dreams. In the end, it's not how many years that you live that counts, it's making the years that you live count for something. It's about trying to cram as much love and kindness as we can, into our lives while we are on this earth.
When we have something meaningful to do and someone to love in our lives, we are better able to cope and deal with stress and pressure, we have more energy, we are more productive and it's boosts our confidence.
Like the janitor we told you about earlier, we have to believe that what we do, no matter what it is, matters and that it serves a greater purpose. What we do helps us to make sense of our life. Seeing the out come of our work is what makes our life more pleasurable and meaningful, and seeing the value of what we do and how it contributes to making the world and the lives of other better, will bring us the greatest satisfaction and fulfillment even if its scrubbing floors, we have to see how and where we fit in. It is not the nature of work that we do that is most important, it is the legacy that we leave behind after we are gone that's most important.
